HJAS 85/1 Published

The current issue (Volume 85, Number 1) is the first issue published under the new editorship of James Robson and Wai-yee Li, with 3 articles, 2 review essays, and 13 book reviews, as described below:

Articles

PENG XU on the equivocal embrace of the Korean poetess Hŏ Nansŏrhŏn in Ming China
MENG ZHANG on the origins of the medicinal and culinary uses of edible birds’ nest in early modern China
TSUYOSHI ISHII, MINGHUI HU, & JOHN EWELL on the confrontations of two critical thinkers of modern China and Japan with past and present

Review Essays

PEI-YING LIN on three books detailing Buddhism’s transnational circulation in premodern Asia
SEUNGSOOK MOON on two recent studies that decenter and engender North Korean history

And reviews of books by Alison Melnick Dyer, Dylan Esler, Charles Hartman, Satoru Hashimoto, Tomoyasu Iiyama, Dal Yong Jin, John Kieschnick, Aaron Proffitt, Wayne Tan, Sophie Volpp, Xin Wen, Wu Hung, and Takahiro Yamamoto

To view the full table of contents, please visit the HJAS website. The full issue is available on Project MUSE.

About HJAS: Founded in 1936 under the auspices of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (HJAS) has without interruption pursued its mission to disseminate original, outstanding research and book reviews on the humanities in Asia, focusing at present on the areas of China, Japan, Korea, and Inner Asia.

For a complete run of back issues online, with a five-year moving wall, see JSTOR. Starting with Volume 69 (2009), issues are also available through Project MUSE. For more information, please visit the HJAS official website.